omg priceless!!!!!!
DUN WORRY JIM!!!!! BUMS GROW BACK!!! DD

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Like the kind of cup of coffee that you get with a doughnut
'Cept I never get the doughnut I just have the cup of coffee

XD Well, Bobby's gotta learn sometime that Nathan's a total slut.

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Caffeine, a few days without any sleep, maybe some hard liquor. It's once I start wildly chain-smoking that I know I've hit that 'sweet spot'.

FAVED A ZILLION AND ONE TIMES FOREVER.

Oh my GAWD. I love you Jim's hair is PERFECT!

I used a couple of your drawings for reference and color stealing.

Man, I wish I could get colors as good as you. I can never figure the damn things out and my chars always look dull and washed out. ><

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Caffeine, a few days without any sleep, maybe some hard liquor. It's once I start wildly chain-smoking that I know I've hit that 'sweet spot'.

Well, you pick a lot of bright and vibrant tones in your color pieces, but I have noticed that you could make your light and shade more dynamic--that's what really makes things "pop". I had trouble with this for a long time--here are some pointers that helped me.

For shading, I've noticed that you often just use a grey transparent shadow overlay, or a slightly darker/desaturated version of your flats. I just happened to notice that your Trick or Treat deviation seems to use this technique. For example, in this piece, I just used a "Multiply" layer and used only various shades of grey to indicate shade. I don't think it looks bad, but it's how I used to do things, and it just lacks punch and dynamic, y'know?

Some of my arty friends pointed out that I wasn't making the best use of color. Look at your hand, for instance--it isn't just one flat flesh tone with grey shadows. It's probably got reds and yellows and browns and even blues. Do a Google Image Search for "sunlight" and notice how warm and bright objects look in the light, and how shadows turn bluer in shade. Light and shade isn't just about darkness--it's also about hue and saturation.

So lately I've been trying to make deep, saturate-y shapely shadows and bright, luminous lights.

Contrast my old, flat-looking work to one of my latest pictures: Lizard and Candle. This is by no means the best picture in the world, but it's a step up for me.

Pick out orange on a color wheel and see how it's nestled between red and yellow. Now take a look at the ground beneath the lizard, for instance--see how the ground beneath him is kind of orange? It retreats back toward darker, muted red/browns in the shadows, but it surges toward yellow in the light.

Now take a look at the lizard himself - he's kind of teal. Pick out a shade of teal on the color wheel. It's flanked by green and blue, right? Well, see how the lizard is greener toward the light and bluer away from it? Human eyes are calibrated for yellow sunlight, so if you're trying to portray a natural light source, you can fool the eye by making your lights warmer and your shadows cooler.

It's REALLY hard to get right - I'm still struggling myself, and I definitely don't do it right all the time. It's also not foolproof, because light and shade come in many different colors. But practice, practice, practice! One thing that helped me was to just practice with photographs of real-life, everyday things, and try to digitally "paint" my own versions of them with natural light and shade. The best way to get a feel for anything is to draw from life.

You're doing great and this is an amazing picture. I love it

Oh, that's some good ideas rioght thar. Thanks for the tips.

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Caffeine, a few days without any sleep, maybe some hard liquor. It's once I start wildly chain-smoking that I know I've hit that 'sweet spot'.

Also, *I* really want to draw Nathan and Jim in a compromising position now! T-T Can I steal Nathan? Plz?

No, but you can borrow him. So long as it's only sex. Sex is with anyone, but he LOVES Bobby. ^^

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Caffeine, a few days without any sleep, maybe some hard liquor. It's once I start wildly chain-smoking that I know I've hit that 'sweet spot'.